An original Henri Matisse (1869-1954) etching, “La Cite-Notre Dame”, at $2,500 is one of the higher priced works recently added to the extensive inventory available for sale online at Affordable Art 101.
Art Galleries & Museums
Just four hours from New York City, and serving as the main art institution for schools like Williams College and Bennington, The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts has just received an enormous posthumous donation from the Bulgarian-American software developer Aso O. Tavitian.
Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art reimagines 400 artworks from the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition tackles political, aesthetic, and narrative challenges surrounding artworks spanning over 2,000 years. Many of the works on view have never been seen before, while others are still promised to the museum and currently on loan.
Gallerist Sonya Sparks is focused. As a native of San Diego with an avid interest in both art and business, this young entrepreneur was aware that there were few options for the many artists who live and work in this southern California town to show and sell their work.
The non-profit contemporary art organization, KADIST, in San Francisco and the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston have teamed up with joint exhibitions to examine the archival conditions of memory, ritual, and interconnectivity.
Dedicated to inspiring wonder through the power of art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art has over half-a-million visitors each year; general admission is free.
On January 23, 1944, Edvard Munch died peacefully in his sleep in Ekely, Norway, and the world lost an artist who would become one of the most well-known of the 20th century, thanks to his iconic artworks, “The Scream” chief amongst them.
Edges of Ailey, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is an exhibition that investigates, reveals, and honors the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey. Ailey was born in Rogers, Texas in 1931 and suffered the harsh realities of the south, before relocating with his mother to Los Angeles, California in 1942.
When gallerist Guy Lyman answered the phone for our Art & Object interview, he had just driven ten hours from his gallery in New Orleans to his daughter’s home in Texas to escape the potential consequences of Category 2 hurricane Francine as it was making landfall in Louisiana.
To say Olafur Eliasson is a light and space artist is to reduce him to the fundamental elements of his practice.
